Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter M

Was a French film director, script-writer, playwright and author. His play "All in the Family", adap

Was a French film director, script-writer, playwright and author. His play "All in the Family", adapted by Victor Wolfson, was given its first performance at the Strand Theatre, London on June 17, 1959. It was directed by Norman Marshall and designed by Paul Mayo. The cast consisted of Maxine Audley, Donald Sinden, Andre Morell, Brian Oulton, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Michael Logan, Vanda Godsell, Pauline Knight, Virginia Maskell, Mary Powell, Douglas Malcom and Philip Ashley.

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 40 films since 1955.

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed 40 films since 1955.

Was a French film director. He directed nearly a dozen films, including Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus),

Was a French film director. He directed nearly a dozen films, including Orfeu Negro (Black Orpheus), which won the Golden Palm at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.

Was a French film director. Feyder accepted an invitation to work in England for Alexander Korda, fo

Was a French film director. Feyder accepted an invitation to work in England for Alexander Korda, for whom he made Knight Without Armour (1937), but made it possible for Carné to take over his project, Jenny (1936), as its director.[4] The film marked the beginning of a successful collaboration with surrealist poet and screenwriter Jacques Prévert.

Was a French film-maker, who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practiti

Was a French film-maker, who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued until the 1950s and he made more than 40 feature films in total. During the 1950s and 1960s he worked on cultural programmes for French television. He also fulfilled many administrative roles in the French film industry, and he was the founder and the first President of the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC).

Is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He has directed 22 films since 1972. He was nominated fo

Is a Polish film director and screenwriter. He has directed 22 films since 1972. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short for 89mm from Europe.[1]

Is a documentary film maker and former actor. He was born in Frankfurt, Germany, the son of Max Ophüls. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950.

Was a film director. He was born Marcel Hyacinth le Bozec in Paris, France. Varnel started his worki

Was a film director. He was born Marcel Hyacinth le Bozec in Paris, France. Varnel started his working life on the Paris stage but soon became a director of musical comedies. In 1925 he moved to New York working as director in several Broadway operettas, musicals and dramas for the Shubert family. This was followed by a move to Hollywood where he directed three low budget thrillers.

Is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He has directed five films since 1999. His film Cinem

Is a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He has directed five films since 1999. His film Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

An award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer.[1]Piñeyro studied cinematography a

An award-winning film director, screenwriter, and film producer.[1]Piñeyro studied cinematography at La Plata University's School of Fine Arts. In 1980, he and his associate Luis Puenzo founded Cinemania, a Latin American production company.In 1984, Piñeyro came to international attention as executive producer of The Official Story (directed by Luis Puenzo). In 1985, the film became the first Latin American movie to win an Academy Award for the Best Foreign Language Film.In 1992, Piñeyro premiered as a director with Tango Feroz (Tanguito, Wild Tango). In Argentina, the film set attendance records[citation needed] and initiated a debate about the country's past. Screened at such film festivals as the Toronto International Film Festival in 1993, the film won several awards including the Premio del Jurado Joven en el Festival de San Sebastián (1993).

Is a Portuguese director.With a degree from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in 1994, he takes

Is a Portuguese director.With a degree from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in 1994, he takes an apprenticeship at production with directors Wim Wenders, Manoel de Oliveira and Bertrand Tavernier. For two years, he works as assistant director to Jo

Is a Polish film director and television director. He directed the film and series versions of Wiedz

Is a Polish film director and television director. He directed the film and series versions of Wiedzmin aka The Hexer and the series Miasteczko. He has worked as First Assistant Director with top Polish directors Andrzej Wajda and Krzysztof Zanussi and has specialized as a Polish First Assistant Director and Second Unit Director on international productions made in Poland notably including Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List and has a long working relationship with German director Volker Schlöndorff.

Polish TV, film and theatrical actor, director.In 2007 he planned to revolutionize the Polish domest

Polish TV, film and theatrical actor, director.In 2007 he planned to revolutionize the Polish domestic wine market by introducing Winarium wine stores in every city with a population of over 100,000.[1]

Is a Polish film and theatre director, screenwriter, actor and playwright.

Is a Polish film and theatre director, screenwriter, actor and playwright.

Polish director and scenarist.

Polish director and scenarist.

Was a French writer and film director.Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and ret

Was a French writer and film director.Marguerite's father fell ill soon after their arrival, and returned to France, where he died. After his death, her mother, a teacher, remained in Indochina with her three children. The family lived in relative poverty after a bad investment in an isolated property and area of farmland in Cambodia. The difficult life that the family experienced during this period was highly influential on Marguerite's later work.

Is a multi-awarded film director in the Philippines.She is the founder and current president of the

Is a multi-awarded film director in the Philippines.She is the founder and current president of the Marilou Diaz Abaya Film Institute and Arts Center, a film school based in Antipolo City, Philippines.Diaz directed and released her first feature film, Tanikala (Chains) in 1980. Since then, she has been one of the most active and visible directors in Philippine cinema.[1]

Is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film, Don't Look Back, was screened out of

Is a French film director, screenwriter and actress. Her film, Don't Look Back, was screened out of competition at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Born in Leigh Creek, South Australia, Andreacchio graduated from Flinders University with a degree i

Born in Leigh Creek, South Australia, Andreacchio graduated from Flinders University with a degree in Psychology (after originally going to University to study Experimental Physics), and then was selected to study at the Australian Film & Television School to train as a film director. He has directed seven cinema feature films, made a series of television specials, two telemovies, three children's mini-series and a variety of documentaries. In 1988, he won an International Emmy Award for Captain Johnno.

Was an Argentine film director.Lugones directed films such as the 1950 film Abuso de confianza.

Was an Argentine film director.Lugones directed films such as the 1950 film Abuso de confianza.

Was an Italian born Argentine film director of the 1900s and 1910s and one of the earliest directors

Was an Italian born Argentine film director of the 1900s and 1910s and one of the earliest directors in the Cinema of Argentina. He directed what is nowadays considered the first fiction feature movie, El Fusilamiento de Dorrego, now lost.Gallo arrived in Argentina in 1905 and began directing in 1909 El Fusilamiento de Dorrego, which he presented a year later. Argentine cinema had so far consisted of shorts depicting parts of Buenos Aires and even a documental by Eugenio Py, in 1900, but Gallo's film was the first to be a feature work of fiction. In later years, Gallo claimed to have filmed other films first, all equally lost and of which remained no evidence. Gallo's films consisted of short glimpses of reenacted Argentine history, mostly historical events, myths and battles. No other film he ever made achieved the fame of his first.

Is an Italian director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Comedy Ita

Is an Italian director and screenwriter, one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Comedy Italian style).He attended studies in the local lyceum, and entered in the film world through his friendship with Giacomo Forzano, son of the playwright Giovacchino Forzano, who had been charged by Mussolini of the founding of cinema studios in Tirrenia. Monicelli lived a carefree youth, and many of the jokes he later shot in Amici Miei were taken from his experience.

An Argentine film director and screenwriter.He worked mainly in the Cinema of Argentina best known f

An Argentine film director and screenwriter.He worked mainly in the Cinema of Argentina best known for his children's comedy films

Was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of F

Was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.A native of Florence, Soffici moved the Argentina in the 1920s and began acting in 1931 and directing in 1935 on the film El Alma de Bandoneón, working with popular actors of the period such as Libertad Lamarque in tango-based musical films. He directed some 40 films between 1935 and 1962, most notably El Curandero (1955), El hombre que debía una muerte (1955) and Rosaura a las 10 (1958). He directed and co-wrote with Eduardo Boneo and Francisco Madrid La cabalgata del circo, where Eva Duarte played a supporting role.

His 2004 biopic BAADASSSSS! describes the making of his father's seminal film, Sweet Sweetback's Baa

His 2004 biopic BAADASSSSS! describes the making of his father's seminal film, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song.He graduated from Saint Thomas More School in Connecticut in 1974 and from Columbia University in 1978 with a bachelor's degree in economics.